Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA survey of Zootoca vivipara across the eastern Italian Alps: Evolutionary relationships, historical demography and conservation implications

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cornetti, Luca ^a,b   Menegon, Michele ^c   Giovine, Giovanni ^d   Heulin, Benoit ^e   Vernesi, Cristiano ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c MdS Museo di Scienze   (Italy)

^d Stazione sperimentale regionale per lo studio e la conservazione degli anfibi in Lombardia   (Italy)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ACM4 GENE; ALLELE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; C MOS GENE; CALIBRATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL POPULATION; CYTB GENE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HAPLOTYPE; LATITUDE; LIZARD; MC1R GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; ZOOTOCA CARNIOLICA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CYTOCHROMES B; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; ITALY; LIZARDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84898438113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085912     Document Type: Article

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